Nesting eagles stop fireworks show

P-I STAFF

Published 10:00 pm, Wednesday, May 3, 2006

The Windermere Cup Sky Light Celebration fireworks display, slated for Friday evening over Union Bay, has been canceled out of a concern that the projectiles could harm bald eagles nesting there.

The 20-minute fireworks show had been scheduled to take place the evening before the Windermere Cup Regatta and opening day of boating season festivities on Saturday at the Montlake Cut. The regatta, a free public event, will start at 10:20 a.m.

"With the new knowledge that there are nesting bald eagles in the vicinity, we cannot, in good conscience, move forward with this display," Windermere Real Estate owner Jill Jacobi-Wood said in a statement.